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Ancient Mesopotamia
The cradle of civilization
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Last updated: February 28, 2022
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1. What does the word Mesopotamia mean?
The land between mountains
The land between seas
The land between rivers
The land between valleys
2. In what current country is most of Ancient Mesopotamia located?
Pakistan
Iran
Iraq
Turkey
3. Who were the first humans to form a civilization?
Sumerians
Babylonians
Assyrians
Persians
4. Who was Hammurabi?
King of Babylon
King of Assyria
King of Sumer
King of Egypt
5. What was Hammurabi known for?
Inventing the wheel
Long beard
Code of law
Multiple wives
6. Which empire developed the first form of writing by using pictures for words and inscribing them on clay tablets?
Akkadians
Sumerians
Assyrians
Babylonians
7. What was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, as well as the largest city in the world for several decades?
Kish
Assur
Nineveh
Nippur
8. What ruler invaded the land and conquered the Persian Empire in 333 BC?
Alexander the Great
Julius Caesar
Cleopatra VII
Sargon the Great
9. Who besieged Jerusalem in 568 BC, captured a large number of Judeans and took them to Babylon where they became slaves?
Cyrus the Great
Darius I
Nebuchadnezzar II
Xerxes I
10. What was the deciding battle during the first invasion of Greece by the Persians?
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Athens
Battle of Marathon
Battle of Thermopylae
11. What was a ziggurat in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Siege weapon
Type of vehicle
Large theatre
Temple to the local god
12. What ancient wonder of the world had its home in Babylon?
Statue of Zeus
Temple of Artemis
Hanging Gardens
Colossus
13. What city was the center of the Sumerian civilization?
Persepolis
Babylon
Uruk
Akkad
14. Ancient Mesopotamia was famously located by which two rivers?
Indus and Tigris
Tigris and Euphrates
Euphrates and Nile
Nile and Indus
15. Under which ruler, the Persians conquered Babylon and much of Mesopotamia?
Cyrus the Great
Darius I
Xerxes I
Ramses II
16. In Sumerian literature what was Gilgamesh searching for?
Wealth
Eternal life
Meaning of life
Love
17. What is Gilgamesh according to mythology?
Demigod
Devil
Dragon
Lion
18. What is the name of the wild man that the gods sent to challenge Gilgamesh, but eventually they became best friends?
Bull of Heaven
Enkidu
Humbaba
Utnapishtim
19. The Persian wars were a series of wars fought between the Persians and which empire?
Roman
Babylonian
Sumerian
Greek
20. Where was the battle where 300 Spartans hold off the entire Persian army?
Pydna
Thermopylae
Marathon
Grancius
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5 Comments
Crem
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Level 70
Feb 5, 2021
Fun quiz!
Nenadbs
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Level 54
Feb 27, 2021
Thanks :)
Alexquiz17
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Level 95
May 10, 2021
Yes, good quiz, ancient history rocks!
Nenadbs
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Level 54
May 11, 2021
Thanks :)
ItzIngenious
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Level 66
Feb 2, 2023
Cool, but once you get to the Persian wars, Mesopotamian culture was already vanishing.
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